We've been married one month today!
Look what my sweet husband left for me to find when I got up this morning...
The note says "For My Amazingly Wonderful Wife XOXOXOXO"
I love Haribo gummy bears!
And my amazingly wonderful husband!
08 November 2011
07 November 2011
Monday Medusozoa
Periphylla or The Helmet Jelly
- Probably one of the most common or the most common deep sea jellyfish!
- These jellyfish use bioluminescence to fend off predators!
- The periphylla also avoids light!
Geckos Galore
I love finding Geckos!
We see at least a couple of them a day on windows or ceilings. This little guy crawled out of my coupon notebook tonight when I picked it up from the kitchen counter. I accidentally cut his tail off with my fingernail while I was attempting to pick him up to bring him outside. Lucky for him, it will grow back!
03 November 2011
Our First Christmas!
Now that Halloween is over, and our busy hectic life is slowing down (kind of maybe?), I'm starting to get excited about Christmas! Although we more than likely won't have our "things" here, including our Christmas decorations and ornaments, I am excited about the gifts that we're getting for our family and decorating our currently empty home! I also found a PERFECT gift for Levus that he is going to L-O-V-E and I am already bursting at the seams to give it to him! We were originally talking about going to stay at Bellows or another little military retreat area on the island, but I'm thinking that might not be in the cards anymore.
Which leads me to other news. We found out that FOR SURE we will only be able to ship 2,500lbs from the mainland to the island. Each additional pound is somewhere in the neighborhood of $1-$1.50 per pound. I wish I had some kind of idea of how much our things really weighed so I could figure out exactly how much of the furniture we have that we can send. Right now my first order of business is to find a couch on Craigslist. I don't want to spend too much, but I do want a "nice" set. Furniture here seems to fly fast, so I will probably have to spend a good part of the next couple of days with my eyes peeled. Luckily someone from my husbands shop has a truck that they are really kind enough to let us borrow frequently! Although we have access to the Airman's Attic, since we will be living with this furniture for until we someday decide to buy better furniture, I would like to be picky about what we get. We have been surviving for the last few weeks with just camping chairs in our living room and a bed upstairs, so if we have to fill our house piece by piece with furniture I don't mind. The main concern with Levus is a couch so we can lounge when we watch movies together in the living room.
Are you getting excited about Christmas yet? Do you have any special plans for the holiday this year? What special gift do you have planned for a loved one?
Which leads me to other news. We found out that FOR SURE we will only be able to ship 2,500lbs from the mainland to the island. Each additional pound is somewhere in the neighborhood of $1-$1.50 per pound. I wish I had some kind of idea of how much our things really weighed so I could figure out exactly how much of the furniture we have that we can send. Right now my first order of business is to find a couch on Craigslist. I don't want to spend too much, but I do want a "nice" set. Furniture here seems to fly fast, so I will probably have to spend a good part of the next couple of days with my eyes peeled. Luckily someone from my husbands shop has a truck that they are really kind enough to let us borrow frequently! Although we have access to the Airman's Attic, since we will be living with this furniture for until we someday decide to buy better furniture, I would like to be picky about what we get. We have been surviving for the last few weeks with just camping chairs in our living room and a bed upstairs, so if we have to fill our house piece by piece with furniture I don't mind. The main concern with Levus is a couch so we can lounge when we watch movies together in the living room.
Are you getting excited about Christmas yet? Do you have any special plans for the holiday this year? What special gift do you have planned for a loved one?
02 November 2011
Mahalo, Y'all
Before I even moved to Hawai'i I was so excited to find that there was a pumpkin patch here. I've only been to a pumpkin patch a few times, and I was so excited to get the opportunity to have the chance to go to one here. Unfortunately, things are not always as they appear.
We drove up to the pumpkin patch and I had immediate excitement. The view really is beautiful, I mean who regularly gets to go to a pumpkin patch in between Hawaiian mountains and an ocean?
Much to my surprise (although this really shouldn't have surprised me), pumpkins DON'T grow in Hawai'i. Although there were a few (the literal meaning of "few") real pumpkins growing on the vine, the rest of the "patch" was merely ground with pumpkins shipped in from California (boxes lying just to the side of the field) that are placed on the field. The "country" setting was completed with the old fashioned "farmers stand" comprised of the sales of smaller pumpkins, inauthentic cornbread, "Halloween mix" (popcorn and candycorn in a mason jar), and real old-fashioned lemonade (which is water with lemons in a mason jar). The most country thing there was a sign as you were leaving that said "Mahalo Y'all". After having my only hope of a fall experience deteriorate quickly upon seeing the "pumpkin patch", and spending $20 for pumpkins that could have been purchased at the Commissary for $6, this sign did nothing but anger me.
I recognize that I do live in Hawai'i, and it is truly AWESOME here... but I am a little sad about the lack of fall. Because I left Missouri in the summer time and it is still (and will continue to be) summer time in Hawai'i, I'm having this weird feeling that time has stopped in the mainland and it is still summer. It is mentally difficult for me to believe that there are snow storms occurring throughout the country.
We did have a fun time at the pumpkin patch. We were together, and it is beautiful Hawai'i. It is a lesson that I've been able to learn early, we might not always have the feeling of home but we have our new experiences to help us through those lost feelings!
We drove up to the pumpkin patch and I had immediate excitement. The view really is beautiful, I mean who regularly gets to go to a pumpkin patch in between Hawaiian mountains and an ocean?
Much to my surprise (although this really shouldn't have surprised me), pumpkins DON'T grow in Hawai'i. Although there were a few (the literal meaning of "few") real pumpkins growing on the vine, the rest of the "patch" was merely ground with pumpkins shipped in from California (boxes lying just to the side of the field) that are placed on the field. The "country" setting was completed with the old fashioned "farmers stand" comprised of the sales of smaller pumpkins, inauthentic cornbread, "Halloween mix" (popcorn and candycorn in a mason jar), and real old-fashioned lemonade (which is water with lemons in a mason jar). The most country thing there was a sign as you were leaving that said "Mahalo Y'all". After having my only hope of a fall experience deteriorate quickly upon seeing the "pumpkin patch", and spending $20 for pumpkins that could have been purchased at the Commissary for $6, this sign did nothing but anger me.
I recognize that I do live in Hawai'i, and it is truly AWESOME here... but I am a little sad about the lack of fall. Because I left Missouri in the summer time and it is still (and will continue to be) summer time in Hawai'i, I'm having this weird feeling that time has stopped in the mainland and it is still summer. It is mentally difficult for me to believe that there are snow storms occurring throughout the country.
We did have a fun time at the pumpkin patch. We were together, and it is beautiful Hawai'i. It is a lesson that I've been able to learn early, we might not always have the feeling of home but we have our new experiences to help us through those lost feelings!
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